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A few words about those sixties
Yep, I’ve used a heap of ink in the over quarter of a century we’ve been sharing these weekly stories about good old days talking ...
Tom Boggs, Author at The Demopolis Times
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Remembering two words that just seem to pop out
I find myself thinking more and more about dear passed on friends, and some of the language they might have used from time to time. ...
by Tom Boggs, Tuesday, March 10, 2020 2:44 pm
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Sorta old-fashioned hog killing
Got an invitation from old friend, Roe Tucker, to show up at his place for a big breakfast, and then stay around for what used ...
by Tom Boggs, Wednesday, March 4, 2020 2:34 pm
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Days Gone Bye column: A hit and a miss this week
As sometimes happens in my weekly rambling, instead of hitting on just one subject, I might veer off to the side … or the rear ...
by Tom Boggs, Wednesday, February 19, 2020 3:53 pm
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Ballot counting and cake walking
I have a painting of the old courthouse that burned in 1965 hanging in my office, and I often gaze at it, and remember so ...
by Tom Boggs, Wednesday, February 12, 2020 8:41 am
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Around that dining room table
Our cozy little house over on Boggs Street was mighty small by today’s standards, but to us, it fit just fine, including that little bitty ...
by Tom Boggs, Wednesday, February 5, 2020 2:04 pm
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Days Gone Bye: Remembering laughter in the woods
It has been quite awhile since I would call myself a hunter or even much of a fisherman, but I do have many lighthearted memories ...
by Tom Boggs, Tuesday, January 28, 2020 1:18 pm
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Old age memories can be amazing
I chuckled the other day as I related to a friend that right before 2020 dawned upon us my mind was carried back to a ...
by Tom Boggs, Wednesday, January 15, 2020 12:55 pm
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Give me a dollar’s worth please
I’d pull up to a service station in Daddy’s Pontiac, and hold one finger out the window, indicating I only had a dollar for gas, ...
by Tom Boggs, Wednesday, January 8, 2020 1:48 pm
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The citizen soldier remembered
I have used this picture of General Eisenhower speaking to paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division on June 5, 1944 before, but it just jumps ...
by Tom Boggs, Tuesday, November 19, 2019 11:44 am
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The ‘57 bunch of 62 years past
I haven’t used a picture in a while, so here is the photo of the first 11 of the 1957 Linden Red Devil football team. ...
by Tom Boggs, Wednesday, November 13, 2019 11:25 am
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Where we might ought not to have been
We didn’t often venture too far from home way back yonder, ‘cept maybe walking over to Indian Mounds, Back Bone Ridge and the like as ...
by Tom Boggs, Tuesday, November 5, 2019 3:09 pm
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“Days Gone Bye”: Yes, we were young
I have a ceramic mold of an old Englishman’s head I bought in London many years ago. The artist did not leave out even one ...
by Tom Boggs, Thursday, October 31, 2019 12:59 pm
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The old man came knocking
In all these many years, I didn’t expect to miss even one newspaper deadline with my weekly column, but I’ve missed several, and may miss ...
by Tom Boggs, Tuesday, October 22, 2019 3:14 pm
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After victory, back to living
The year was 1946, and it was a good time to still be living. So many millions had perished at the hands of the Axis ...